Ridiculous/annoying phrases that wind you up/make no sense

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I will start.

-Hate cigarettes being called fags.

-The London term, bare, referring to lots, but in reality means nothing, like bare minimum. So when they say there were BARE people at the museum, do they mean none or naked!

-Allow it fam! Another London term, where people will say that when they want something to stop. But 'allow it' surely means let it continue, haha.

-Beggars belief/isn't it meant to be it begs belief?.... someone correct me if I am wrong? ....

-boils my p#*s. Makes me feel sick thinking of a pot of urine on the stove being boiled.

-chest of draws/ chester draws. Its bloody drawers!

-the classic 'i brought it from the shop'

-my mother used to shout out Pure Filth in her Irish accent, if the house wasn't tidy. It wasn't even that bad, but she hated mess and if there was an empty glass on the table and a magazine left on the floor or a crisp wrapper, she would call the house a mess and that we (US SIBLINGS) were happy to live in PURE FILTH. Bearing in mind, the two don't exactly go together. 'LOOK AT THIS PURE FILTH! GOD FORGIVE YE!'

-Men referring to each other as Bruv. I don't mind bro, mind you.

'Caught pregnant'

"I could care less". Seems to be an American thing - I can only assume somebody once mis-heard "I couldn't care less" and now everyone repeats the mistake without ever stopping to consider whether it actually makes sense.

On the subject of death, I saw on here the other day, "tried to unalive himself". I do understand why "committed suicide" is no longer an acceptable term and have no issues with that, but "tried to unalive himself" as an alternative?!

"this arvo" who abbreviated that shit up??

"PUT ON/PULL UP YOUR BIG GIRLS PANTS" 🤮

You never hear "PUT ON YOUR BIG BOYS Y-FRONTS" do you!!!

You don't know many Australians then?

I'd always assumed that this was an American phrase, where "pants" = trousers. Certainly, in America, you'd hear "put on your big boy pants" as well.

No. The equivalent would be "man up".

Yes, pulling on your big girl pants really is a sickening phrase.

"Sickening"

Why? Surely it's the equivalent, as I posted above, of " man up."

Talking about people having ‘passed’. Passed what? They died.

Likewise ‘my little boy crossed the rainbow bridge’. No, your pet died. He wasn’t a child .

‘Excited for’. Oh my God I hate this so much. You are excited ABOUT not for. How did this creep into common useage?

‘Date night’ being used for anything a couple do together for entertainment. A night out for a married couple is not a bloody date .

Bathroom being used to describe a toilet. No , it’s not a bathroom. There’s no bath.

‘Wine o’clock’. You mean it’s time to get pissed again…

I was sat. it's I was seated or I was sitting.

baby daddy. I hate it.

Another one for I fell pregnant. No, you didn't fall into anything. You had sex and made a baby. You would think in this day and age especially when women have many options regarding preventing a pregnancy they would not consider getting pregnant something that just happens to them without any input of their own.

I don't know but they were definitely Australian as it's often said there.

Ive seen a lot of talk on these boards in recent years about being broken.

There’s just something about it that I can’t quite fathom why I dislike it quite so much.

There’s something smugly self aggrandising about describing oneself as being broken.

’He broke me’. ‘She broke me’ etc. They didn’t. They hurt you. They did not fucking break you, you fucking tool.

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Yes, pulling on your big girl pants really is a sickening phrase.
"Sickening"

Why? Surely it's the equivalent, as I posted above, of " man up.""

To me the feminine equivalent of 'man up' is 'woman up'.

The masculine equivalent of 'pulling on your big girl pants' is 'pulling on your big boy pants', 🤮, which is also sickening.

Revert back is even worse.

Putting back after revert is unneccessary. It's like describing someone as "very fat, overweight person."

’Switch it up/switch out’ as a phrase to claim you’re swapping something. Lots of home influencers say it. Makes me want to poke my eyes out.

“By return of post” makes sense to me as post vans do go back and forth”. But “by return of email” is an odd one.

Yes, it's tedious, and probably not helpful to anyone. Even when talking statistics (I'm thinking particularly during COVID) you can't say the perfectly accurate and straightforward "died", you have to say "sadly-died" as if it's one word.

And you can't just express that you're sorry about whoever has sadly-died, you have to be "so sorry" or even "so, so sorry". Where will it end??

Exactly. That's why it's even worse than just writing "revert" (which is already being used wrongly in this context as it doesn't mean "to get back to someone about something").

My aunt says, "If you know what I mean," as a filler phrase, even if she's talking about something very simple and commonplace rather than anything particularly nuanced or esoteric. And now my parents have started doing it.

To fall pregnant.

We’re pregnant.

Any sentence with either the words ‘hubby,’ or ‘wifey’ in.

Foods and drinks described as ‘dirty.’ The dirty burger, dirty fries, dirty martini…

’Not being horrible…’ Yes you bloody well are, and always are!

Vanishingly unlikely. Only ever used on Mumsnet, almost always condescending.

When someone says "yes and no" in reply to to a question, it annoys me so much

Also "bruh" what does that even mean? Is it another term for bro??

"Give it up for..." as said by people like Ant and Dec. It's just applause, it's not my virginity.

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